If you missed the original inspiration – Caine’s Arcade is the story of a Southern California boy who created a colossal arcade from cardboard while hanging out at his dad’s auto-parts store. It’s inspired a movement for low-tech, high-touch play among kids – and this Saturday was set as a day for Caine’s Arcade-inspired Cardboard Challenges everywhere, including West Seattle, where of course there were games:

That’s Lucy LeBaron trying her luck with a tossing game that doubled as a fishing game. Building and playing all happened together – 10-year-old Helen Simmons(center of the next photo) built a cardboard-box game:

Retro inspiration for this next one, a Pac-Man game:

7-year-old Noah Gardner did some bowling:

He masqueraded as a robot for a while, too (that’s mom Mari Gardner helping):

(Sound Transit file photo, Capitol Hill) By Tracy Record West Seattle Blog editor The in-person open houses are over. The online open house continues. You have less than two weeks to get your opinion(s) into the wide-open